Weather anomaly in the United States: in Kansas formed a giant band of snow

During his flight from St. Louis to Phoenix Lee Marts have noticed in the window a very mysterious band of white color, which was surrounded by bare grass. The anomaly arose on the prairies of Kansas, in Hutchinson.

Strange band was confirmed by meteorological satellites. As it turned out, the anomaly represents a band of snow height precipitation was more than 30 cm band Width was varied in the range of 16-24 km. Interestingly, the edges of the snow-line is almost not there.

Snow band stretched from North-West to South-East. She went through such County, Russell, Lincoln and Ellsworth in Kansas. According to meteorologists, the problems in forecasting winter storms are a long time. Another storm was local, it was not ready neither forecaster Great plains.

It is noted that the cause of the disaster is a convergence or a mild collision of several air masses on the surface. Because of the clutter is his rise, as a result, the formed strip of snow. Outside this line there is practically no precipitation.

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